The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-14

She Attends the Graduation Ex-
ercises at West Point and
Has a Time.

pOndence l.-Here am anu mere Is
nv friend, Fanny H, of New
York, and here, it seems to me, are
forty thousand other girls, all come to
see the "bowld soger boys" get their
sheepskins and become hirelings of
Uncle Sam at salary of 81, 800 per
year.
said there were girls here. Well |
should remark There are short girls
and long girls, girls of the period and
blonde girls that are afraid to peek at
the soldiers, and girls that do nothing
else but peek, and girls in white
flannel suits and natly tailor suits,
and oh, Lordy! as l said to Fan,
sit looks as if every girl in New York
were here and it must be because
there is nothing half so sweet in lite
as loves young dream, especially if
chap in a blue coat with seventeen
rows of buttons and nine inch tail TO it
does the other half of the love max
ing" Fan, always laughs
at such remarks, and yet she never
makes them herself. She is one of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
kind" and is never either slangy or
rude. She has jolly brother here
though, and when he told me that he
was'dog-goned glad that his four years
of grinding away at hard tack and
army beans drilling, walking crack
and being
GENERALLY DISCIPLINED
was over" | sympathized with him
to such an extent that | gravely held
out my hand with the one word
"shake!" 1t is, of course, great,
grand thing, as Billy admitted, to
graduate with honors from an academy
whose strong, gray walls and time
tinted roof, have honored the heroes
living and heroes dead of this great
Nation, but, after all, it is something
grander to know that you don't have
to do it again and can now 60 and
shoot Indians, or loaf about camp,
Just as the within suits you. Of course
promotion does not come rapidly In
these piping times of peace, because
only deaths, designations or court.
martials makes such promotion posi-
BILE, but when it does come it is there
to stay for a good while, perhaps, and
in the meantime Captain" or Lieu
tenant" as title and pair of gleam-
ing shoulder straps on the shoulder as
badges of power and influence, can't
help having weight with the aver
age mind whether born farmer or a
prince. Everywhere to-day there was
blaze of glory and the suns rays fell
MILES OF BUNTING
and glittering uniforms of blue and
gold. The cadets really looked I'M
mense, and in the meanwhile all the
good looking blonde cadets, including
Billy, fell in love with the brunette
girls-I am a brunette you know
and all the good looking brunette Ca
diets fell in love with the blonde
girls-Fanny is blonde--and
we had a regular holiday
time. You know love al
West Point doesn't amount to any
thing, it is merely a little skirmish
with cupid, where nobody gets hurt
and where not a scar is left. After
the examinations closed at this writing
it has not been decided which will get
into the coveted engineer corps on the
Ordnance. A good many hearts arr
drawn between hope and fear abou
this. because you must know, this il
considered a great honor indeed. The
next choice after this-so Billy tells
me-lies between the cavalry and ar
tillery. The lowest 60 to the infantry
and have no choice.
At 5 o'clock the graduating clas
divided into three companies, were ex
ercised in
A BATTALION DRILL
for about half an hour and were
then reviewed by the commander
Gen. Wesley Merritt, and also by
the Board of Visitors. The drill wai
very beautiful and effective as the
boys in blue and gold wheeled
"about face" and the rest of it with
such admirable precision and the
spectators loudly applauded. An ole
soldier who happened to be standing
near me aud who had seen many O.
these drills, remarked that this wa
certainly the "best he had seen fol
years." Fanny and l both though
it lovely, especially the close when &
wild charge was made and the cadets
whooped and yelled in mad charge
on
AN IMAGINARY FOE.
The way they brandisbed thei